Google has released a new Google Docs application for its Android mobile operating system, hoping to facilitate both the editing and sharing of documents via its online word processing service.
Now available from the Android Market, the app lets you search for and open files stored across your Google account, and it offers built …

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Finally!

About time!

This has been far too long in coming... even the ancient Windows CE has Word Mobile; the old Palm phones even had a halfway decent document viewer. Android... didn't. Until now, that is. Here's to hoping it's a decent document viewer/editor...

@"Offline access not included"

They wouldn't give offline access, as we may do something offline (like write a letter to a friend offline) that they then can't spy on what we say. They have got to find a way to get spying built into the apps somehow.

Blimey!

That's a bit much.

Android Docs is newsy because it's been a very conspicuous absence for a long time -- Google have a phone OS, Google have a cloud office platform and they DIDN'T work together. Now they do (not that it'll make any difference to me on 1.7.)

WTF?

eh? you read The Register for long? If so, you'd know that they were mainly Apple fanbois (I'll even use their term here ;-) ) - did you not see the iOS App of the week? The continual dripping of pointless Apple news (iPhone 4 now in white...ho hum). Theres little time or love for Android - or google - check the archives for their rather bitter rebuke of google - chocolate factory :-)

So what?

letters and/or digits.

OCR Recognition

They've done a great job with the OCR recognition, took a blurry image of some small italic text from a text book next to me and it got around 97% of it all correct; the only bits it fell down on were some special characters which were formatted weirdly.

Great for snapping shots of documents to come back to later on your computer; who does word processing on a mobile anyways?!

Re: Yeah? What's so funny about it?

Absolutely

I would even go as far as making use of Google's own creative approach to copyrights and say:

El Reg's commenters are described as mindlessly bureaucratic, aggressive, having "as much sex appeal as a road accident" and the writers of "the third worst comments in the universe".

The second is of course Engadget's, who make an "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" seem like a research article for Nature by comparison, or of course the worse of them all are the comments in Gizmodo from which I can't even cite examples lest I'd have to kill myself.